Sleepless (1957 film)

For the novel with the same name, see La Anam (novel).

Sleepless
Sleepless DVD cover
Arabicلا أنام
Directed bySalah Abouseif
Tolba Radwan
Screenplay byEl Sayed Bedeir
Saleh Gawdat
Salah Ezz el-Din
Story byIhsan Abdel Quddous
Based onSleepless
Produced byAbdelhalim Nasr
Artists Union
StarringFaten Hamama
Yehia Chahine
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Omar Sharif
Emad Hamdy
Hind Rostom
Rushdy Abaza
CinematographyMahmoud Nasr
Abdelhalim Nasr
Hassan Dahesh
Edited byEmile Bahri
Hussain Ahmed
Alfred Bahri
Music byFouad El-Zahry (soundtrack)
Production
company
Dollar Film
Distributed byRotana (DVD)
Dollar Film
Release date
  • October 31, 1957 (1957-10-31) (Egypt)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

Sleepless (Arabic: لا أنام, translit. La Anam) is a 1957 Egyptian melodrama film. The film follows the intricate story of Nadia Lutfi, a daughter of divorced parents who suffers from Electra complex, which drives her to intervene in her father's relationships.[1]

Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous.[2] The film, which is currently ranked the 29th best Egyptian film by the cinema committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo,[3][4] starred Faten Hamama, Yehia Chahine, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Emad Hamdy, Hind Rostom and Rushdy Abaza. It was released on DVD as part of the Egyptian Cinema Classics film collection.[5] Sleepless is one of the ten first Egyptian colored films.[6]

  1. ^ Farid, Samir (1995). Faten Hamama. Egyptian Cultural Development Fund. p. 50. ISBN 977-235-329-6.
  2. ^ Al Aris, Ibrahim. "The Legacy of Salah Abu Seif". Al Jadid Magazine. Retrieved March 9, 2007.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Farid, Samir. "Top 100". Al-Ahram. Archived from the original on March 22, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2007.
  4. ^ "La Anam" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official site. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
  5. ^ "Sleepless". Ara Movies. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
  6. ^ لا أنام. Ara Movies (in Arabic). Retrieved March 9, 2007.